A PRIMARY school ‘crisis’ is looming, according to an MP.

Hyndburn and Haslingden MP Graham Jones spoke out over concerns of a national primary school places crisis, with an additional 240,000 primary places needed by 2015.

He said: “The government’s failure on primary places was exposed as we learnt that the Spending Review gave no guarantee that new places would go towards addressing the primary shortfall.

“Instead, the Government is prioritising capital investment on more free schools – many of which are being set up in areas with no shortage of places.

“Meanwhile those areas with a desperate need for places are ignored.

The crisis is getting worse, with a sharp rise in infant class sizes exceeding 30 pupils and growing numbers of children being taught in temporary overspill buildings.”